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famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera holds the web's most valuable secret

Yes, because Opera Mini can run on faster phones, but most sold phones are still the cheap ones, and that isn't changing any time soon.

And with operators cutting down on data plans, limited bandwidth isn't going away any time soon either.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera holds the web's most valuable secret

The problem is that most of the world is not going to be using these powerful phones, and in the parts of the world where you can use them, operators are already killing unlimited data plans.

You are living in a dream world if you think compression is going away any time soon.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera holds the web's most valuable secret

You are wrong.

Opera will NOT strip out ads from pages.

What Opera will do is to let the owner of the page choose to serve ads to mobile browsers through Opera's ad network.

So any ads from Opera on a site will be because the owner of the site requested them.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera holds the web's most valuable secret

"they hijack HTTPS sessions"

Trolling much? They aren't hijacking anything. Opera Mini is a thin client (which lets it run on just about any phone, including old and crappy ones), so they have no choice but to pass everything through the rendering engine on their servers.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

What's wrong is that one feature gets one score, and another feature gets a much higher score. Scores are not based on the number of supported features, but on higher scores for certain features.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

More than 1/3 of Opera's revenue is from the desktop browser. It's simply false to claim that it exists on the basis of mobile browsers (superb or not).

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

> I guess you have to credit Opera for sticking it out this long, years after they dropped off the radar of basically everybody.

I don't get it. They were never on the radar. They are now. They've got more than 140 million users.

> I keep hearing that their mobile browser is big, but it seems that nobody has ever visited any of my sites using it.

It has 1/4 of the mobile browser market, and mobile browsing is expected to be bigger than PCs in a couple of years (it's actually growing that fast).

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

A random number like that is pretty useless. Opera has dynamic handling of RAM, so if you have a lot of it, it will use more. If you have less, it will use less.

I'm guessing you have at least 1-2 GB RAM.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

> Although Opera is positioned itself as standard compliant, it has many issues with javascript.

I would have to disagree. Some people keep claiming that, but they can never seem to provide any evidence that Opera has more problems than other browsers.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

Why should people have to understand URLs? Do most people understand how the engine of a car works? No. They just want to get from A to B. Most people don't care.

Hiding query parameters hides yet another thing that's mostly unreadable anyway.

Comparing this to "young people don't understand words" is quite silly. Printed words are important. The message is important. And in fact, language is constantly being simplified, and has been simplified throughout history. Just like the address bar in Opera is now simplified.

famrey | 15 years ago | on: Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

That site isn't very useful since it only reflects what the author thinks is important. It doesn't show actual standards compliance. He chooses tests and assigns scores according to his own priorities. So it's misleading to call it "html5test."
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